Example sentences of "met we " in BNC.
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| 1 | Met we on hill , in dale , forest or mead , |
| 2 | I THOUGHT it was terrific when David JoHansen of the New York Dolls delivered such quips a : ‘ Who cares about the music when one has such sense of drama ? ’ and , ‘ We do n't play too good but we can dance as bad as we want , ’ and ‘ We do n't hold concerts — we throw parties ! ’ , and ‘ It does n't bother us when people say that we ca n't play , when we met we actually could n't , ’ etc , etc , but all these sweeping statements were launched in 1973 , and when those same epigrams are repeated three years later by lesser mortals ( i.e. Sex Pistols , Runaways , Ramones and Kiss ) , things begin to look synthetic . |
| 3 | Well I remember when we first met we wanted to go and do a dissertation together did n't we ? |
| 4 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 6 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |
| 7 | Senior brother , John Isbister , smiling brightly , met us at the pier . |
| 8 | Major Hal , who met us on arrival , insisted that I had qualified for membership in the ‘ Short-Snorters ’ Club ’ . |
| 9 | He found ‘ a Shiella ’ and with her ‘ bounded over heath and rock , over hill and vale , barely conscious of the sloughs when marshy ground met us … ’ |
| 10 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 11 | Crowds of people met us , including dancing girls and a sprinkling of holy water in Jamshedput . |
| 12 | Faith 's boyfriend met us and we stayed an extra day sightseeing . |
| 13 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 14 | Faith , still hesitant of the water-crossing over the Timor Sea , met us in Hawaii and travelled with us to Denpasar , Indonesia . |
| 15 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 16 | The journey to Calcutta took some hours , and when we arrived the Army met us and wanted to put us all in to some barracks , but I protested and rang up the Bishop , Foss Westcott , and asked if he could advise me what to do as Margaret by this time was very ill . |
| 17 | The builder , a cheerful Welshman who was justly proud of his work , met us . |
| 18 | " It had killed before it met us , " said Blackberry with a shudder . |
| 19 | Six miles outside the town , Lord Bothwell met us , with an army . |
| 20 | Mr Arrow met us , and it was clear that he and the squire were very friendly . |
| 21 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 22 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |
| 23 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 24 | Elliott Gabellah , vice president of the Rhodesian ANC , met us the day after he came back from the independence celebrations . |
| 25 | By a chain of accidents and coincidences he met us , and saw the film of William Nkomo 's life . |
| 26 | My brother , then on the staff at Eton , met us in the car . |
| 27 | Denis and Astrid met us at Boston airport , waving large federal flags and they transported us to Astrid 's parents ' home in Becket , Massachusetts . |
| 28 | Alec met us in the cobbled streets of Chiguana with an English-speaking doctor . |
| 29 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 30 | She was called Mandy and she met us , once , at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , bearing books for him , candy canes for me . |